BioHackathon 2025

2025-06-10

CINI Young-InfoLife, RSG-Italy, and Young BITS invite you to the "First International Biohackathon of BITS", an exciting team-based bioinformatics challenge in collaboration with the BITS 2025 conference in Naples and the HPC4AI computing center of the University of Turin.

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๐Ÿ“… When? 14:00 โ€“ June 10, 2025 โ€“ A live hackathon on the eve of BITS 2025 (June 11โ€“13)

๐Ÿ“ Where? Faculty of Biotechnology, Via Tommaso De Amicis, 95, 80131 Naples, Italy

๐Ÿ”Ž The challenge: Get ready to dive into single-cell RNA-seq data analysis! The exact theme was revealed during the in-person event.

๐Ÿ“ Registration: [Closed] โ€“ Thank you to everyone who registered and participated!

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Participants were grouped into diverse teams combining different backgrounds, skills, and institutions. This approach promoted collaboration, peer learning, and innovative problem-solving.


๐Ÿ† ๐ŸŽ‰ Winners Announcement

Weโ€™re thrilled to announce the two winning teams of the First International BioHackathon of BITS-2025:

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ Team 6: Andrea Ninni, Gospel Ozioma Nnadi, Romane Gauthier, Thomas Grant โ€“ with a special mention for Clustering Accuracy;
  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ Team 7: Antonella Cruoglio, Beatrice Nuvolari, Emanuela ScafuriI, Sandro Gepiro Contaldo โ€“ with a special mention for Reproducibility.

Congratulations to all participants for your creativity, collaboration, and technical excellence!
Thank you for making this first edition a real success!


๐Ÿง  Awards & Symposium
The awards ceremony took place during the closing session of BITS 2025, on June 13.
In the afternoon, donโ€™t miss the special joint symposium organized by CINI Young-InfoLife, RSG-Italy, and Young BITS, highlighting the next generation of researchers in bioinformatics.


๐Ÿ’ป Prepare yourself!
Before the competition, we hosted live-streamed webinars โ€” all available on the Young-Infolife YouTube channel:
๐ŸŽฅ https://www.youtube.com/@younginfolife

๐Ÿ“… Webinar Schedule:

  • April 1 โ€“ Reproducibility, containerization, and HPC usage
  • April 15 โ€“ Single-cell RNA-seq: wet lab protocol and quality control
  • April 29 โ€“ Single-cell RNA-seq: computational methods (part 1)
  • May 13 โ€“ Single-cell RNA-seq: computational methods (part 2)
  • May 27 โ€“ Q&A + spoiler session

๐Ÿ”ฅ Letโ€™s keep building this community together!
Thank you all again โ€” and see you at the next BioHackathon!

BioHackathon

Speakers: Simone Pernice, Giacomo Baruzzo, Giulia Cesaro, Ramona Palombo, Federica Rossi, Vincenzo Bonnici, Eva Viesi, Simone Avesani, Luca Alessandrรฌ, Sofia Borgato.
Organizers: Luca Alessandrรฌ, Giulia Cesaro, Simone Pernice, Matteo Pallocca, Federica Rossi, Ramona Palombo, Mirko Treccani, Giacomo Baruzzo, Salvatore Calderaro, Eva Viesi, Elena Grassi, Sofia Borgato, Laura Veschetti.
Online streamers: Salvatore Calderaro